![]() Morgan Stanley and Hannah now designs children’s books for Simon and William now lives in Shanghai, China, where he’s an IT vice president for Inįact, at one appearance, a little girl asked Cummings, “Does Chadwick live with Wrong and moral dilemmas are still presented in fiction that is accessible byīy personal appearances at schools, book fairs and other events – more thanġ,000 appearances since Chadwick… was published. Increasingly secular, it is reassuring to see that lessons about right and Tale, not unlike Aesop’s Fables – think The Tortoise and the Hare People, including Red Kayak, I found that each presents a morality Red Kayak wasįollowed by two sequels, The Journey Back and CheatingĪs I skimmed through her novels for young Young Adults” list of the American Library Association. Most famous is Red Kayak (2004), named to the “Best Books for Of her eight middle grade and young adult novels, the In that sense, they were very muchĬummings switched from writing stories for picture books to writing novels for Interest in things that I could address in my stories. Were a constant source of inspiration for Cummings’ books. Mothers whose work took them outside the home.” Said, “I turned to in-home childcare to buy time to write – not unlike other In the early days of parenting, the kids took long She never regretted that decision, but soon had the itchĬhildren was always a challenge. Three years later, in 1986, Cummings gaveīirth to William and three years after that, in 1989, to Hannah.ĭecided to pause her career in journalism to stay home to raise herĬhildren. Met journalist John Frece, for 17 years the Annapolis statehouse bureau chief,įirst for UPI and then the Baltimore Sun. Journalism was great preparation for my life as a writer of children’s books.” Seemed journalism was as close as I could get. “Women in Prison” – the first of many writing awards that would come her way International’s 1980 “Journalist of the Year” for Virginia for her series on Newspapers in four different states, and later as a writer and editor for Baltimore University of New Hampshire with an English major, Cummings began her career asĪ journalist, working 10 years as a newspaper reporter for four different Cohen and a foreword by Chadwick himself! ![]() Re-issued the four original stories in “The Chadwick Treasury,” with a newĬover by A.R. ![]() The book is still in print and this year the publisher has Stories each one teaching young children – as young as age two – somethingĪbout the plants, wildlife and other natural as well as man-made features of Rejections, Chadwick… was published and went viral before weįor more, Cummings and Cohen responded with five additional Chadwick… Little crab achieves his very big dream and, in the process, avoids ending up The Sea Gull, Toulouse the French Canadian Goose, and especially Esmerelda, the Quiet Orville Oyster, a fussy, near-sighted egret named Matilda, Bernie Lot about the Chesapeake Bay as you meet his wide circle of friends – Live in the Baltimore Aquarium, in part to avoid going to the bottom of the Bay The big idea of reaching for their dreams.” Chadwick’s dream is to Reviewer, “ Chadwick the Crab is a great book for children to learn To our children at least 50 times during their growing-up years on theĬhesapeake Bay, and that doesn’t count all the times they read it on their own. MD and now retired and raising bees in Harford County. (Alan) Cohen, then an art teacher at Wilde Lake high school in Columbia, Interviewed Priscilla Cummings, the author of Chadwick the Crab, aīest-selling children’s book published in 1986, with illustrations by A.R. Luminary was active into his 90s, doing concerts and writing his autobiography, Work with an active interest in “worthwhile things” is the best strategy toĪchieve what we now call positive aging. “The person who works and is never bored is never old.” (By Joshua McKerrow / Baltimore Sun Media Group) (Photo credit: Annapolis resident Priscilla Cummings is the author of recently published young adult book, “Cheating for the Chicken Man”.
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